This last week and a half in Playa Del Carmen is evaporating like the tropical raindrops that briefly sprinkled the ground this morning. As always, no matter the length of the trip, it will be hard to leave. I want to pack up the colors, sounds, tastes and smells that permeate our time on the Yucatan Peninsula. The vendors along La Quinta certainly know how to entice you into believing that maybe this or that tchotchke or t-shirt is the way to bring Mexico back with you. But as my husband reminded me, most of those shirts only get worn once at home. I can’t begin to explain how nice it is to have our spacious apartment to come back to after spending a month in hotel rooms; although there was charm, comfort and cleanliness in many of the hotels. But this apartment, with it’s two bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, complete kitchen and dining area, 2 lanais, one off each bedroom and the rooftop deck with a small soaking tub is luxurious. There are times when I don’t know where my husband is, even though I know he didn’t leave the apartment. He’s often in his favorite spot; the soaking tub.
What’s not to like: it’s a 4th floor apartment and no elevator. That’s 48 steps with no handrails, coming and going. The highway is very close which can be convenient but it is a constant whir of noise. There is a lot of construction in this neighborhood; we watch the apartment complex next door to us taking shape every day. Yesterday they poured concrete floors. The noise is not bothersome because we are on the 4th floor but I suppose it could become more of an issue as time goes on. Well the forecast was right, this afternoon we just had an actual rainstorm complete with thunder but it lasted only a half hour or so, leaving some puddles on the dirt roads.
Centro Maya, mall that is only a quarter mile away and has every convenience of home.
The second bedroom and slice of the kitchen.
This is the most clouds we've seen in the past 5 weeks!
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